Brussels, 19/12/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 18 December, the European Parliament's fisheries committee voted for an early ban on the practice of discarding fish into the sea (between 2014 and 2017) and an ambitious approach towards restoring fish stocks. It also rejected the idea of granting transferable fishing concessions (a kind of fish quota privatisation) proposed by the European Commission as a means of reducing the size of the fishing fleet. The report by Ulrike Rodust (S&D,...